Garden Spider
by JH

Comment:
Hey John, this is really quite good. In a lot of ways, I like yours better than mine. I rotated mine 180 degrees, to make it look more "normal" to people who don't hang upside down all day, sprayed the web with water to get it to show up better, and shot it with natural light at dawn, to get a little warmer light, but I think your spider is (a lot) sharper than mine, and I like the darkish green background a lot, better than my brown desert and lens flare background.

Leaving the sun behind
by parallax

Comment:
This was my top pick. Very nice!

Beautiful Drop
by bnilesh

Comment:
Really well executed, Nilesh. I've never tried to do this, so I have no idea how hard it is, but however hard it is, you've pulled it off beautifully. Congrats!

ElectriCity
by tate

Comment:
This is really excellent! Congrats!

Looking down
by FocusPoint

Comment:
Congratulations! Excellent stuff.

Lovers
by zxaar

Comment:
Allright, Arjun! Great job! Congrats on 16th!

A Spicy Portrait
by daboardergirl

Comment:
hmmm....I gave this a 4, so I should comment. I think for me, the technical quality is fine. Focus, lighting, DOF, etc, are all good. I might have cropped off the dark stuff on the right side, but that's personal opinion. Usually, if the technicals are all in place, I would give an image at least a 6, but I think when I saw this, I instantly went, ewww...ick, gave it a 4, and moved on to the next photo before I could really look at it closely. So there you have it for me...

The Out: Fast Runner, Faster Ball
by levyj413

Comment:
This is amazingly good, considering the circumstances. That lens is incredible! Oh, and you seem to have a pretty good idea how to use it, too. :P

Crosswalk
by ryand

Comment:
I gave this a 6. I like the repetitive graphical pattern, and the sharpness on the parts that are close to the camera. As for flaws, I have the same basic comments as the others. I think one of the problems is that you're using f/8, which isn't a small enough aperture for the distant areas to really be in focus. f/11 or f/16 would have been better, and your exposure time would still have been reasonable. Like the others, I would have cropped off the bottom 1/4 of the shot, up to the point where the sidewalks come in from the sides. That would have put the convergence point closer to 1/3 of the way from the top, and it would have looked more balanced.

San Francisco Silhouette
by GeneralE

Comment:
As a large print, this probably looks great, but in 720x format, all the great detail disappears.